Cleaning and polishing device.



PATENTED APR. 17,1906.

Inventor.

Attorneys W J M HAMES CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE.- APPLlOATION FILED A1 1G.16. 1905'.

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s e S n uh (inn-an STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAM J. M. HAMEs, or ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE- x Specification of Iietters Patent Patented ril 17, 1906.

Application filed August16,1905. Serial 1%. 274*,432.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that'I, VVILLIAM J. M. HAMns,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton andState of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Cleaning andPolishing Device, of which the following is a specification.

this character which. is designed for cleaning invention relates to cleaningand pollshmg devices, and has for its object to provide an improved hand-operated device of and polishing any character of surface such,

for instance, as wood, metal, stone, glass, and

. same when the device is being used for cleansmg purposes and to prevent the device from becoming Wetor brought into contact wlth a cleansing preparation.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists in" the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details may be ma e within the scope of the claims without departing from the s irit or sacrificing any of theadvantages of t e invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the body of a cleaning and polishing device constructed in accordance with the features of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view thereof having the shoe applied to one of its faces. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the shoe removed. 4 is a perspective view showing the device having another form of shoe fitted thereto.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawings.

The body of the present device. is polygo-- nal in cross-section, so as to present a plurality of faces. While any cross-sectional shape may be employed according to the different characters of faces desired, I have shown in the drawings a triangular body, the present embodiment including opposite duplicate triangular heads 1 and sides 2, 3, and 4, suitably connected to the ed es of the heads, and thereby completing a ollow tri angularbody. The several sides or longitudi nal faces of the body are provided with the respective facings 5, 6, and 7, each of which differs from the other and is in the nature of a flexible covering having its opposite longi- 'tudinal edges turned or folded inwardly between the edges of adjacent sides of the body and glued, clamped, or otherwise fixedtherebetween. The material which may be employed for facing the sides of the body emraces a great varietysuch, for instance, as cloth, felt, wood fiber, cotton, wool, jute, paper, hair, leather, sandpaper, and the like and combinations of such materials.

For convenience in handling the body there is provided a handle consisting;- of a shank or stem 8, which is provided with a yoke or fork 9, embracing the ends of the body, with the terminal of each fork member pivoted to the center of the adjacent head, as indicated at 10, whereby the body may be turned upon its longitudinal axis to present any one of its faces to the surface to be cleaned or polished.

In connection with the body I employ a detachable shoe 11, (shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings) saidshoe consisting of a metallic plate of a size to cover one'of the faces of the body and provided throughout its op posite longitudinal edges with inwardly-bent s ring-flanges 12, overhan ing the shoe and esigned to frictionally em race the body, as

shown in Fig. 2, so as to detachably connect the shoe to the body. Each fiange 12 is rebent upon its outer side to forman inverted substantially U-shaped clamp member with the adjacent extremity of the plate extended I laterally outward, as at 14:, .to form a guardflange disposed in a lane above that of the main portion 11 of t e shoe. The exposed surface of the shoe is provided with a suitable covering or facing 15 which is drawn Y tightly across the shoe anu'has its opposite edges inserted into the respective clamps 13, whereby the material is detachably connected to the shoe, and may therefore be convenientlyreplaced when worn. With this shoe in position, as shown in Fig. 2, the device isworked back and forth upon the work, to which water or any cleansing com ound. is applied, the shoe serving to take t e wear, and thereby protecting the working faces of he body 6, while the guard fianges 14 prevent water and the like from creeping up the front and rear sides of the shoe to the inactive working faces of the body of the device.

it will now be understood that the work may be first washed or cleansed by the use of the present device with the shoe attached thereto and afterward polished by the employment of one or more of the surfaces of the body of the device, the shoe of course having been previously removed. m

A slightly-modified form of shoe has been shown in Fig. at, which discloses a metallic body 16, having an upstanding flange 17 at each edge thereof, thereby producing a dished or concaved body. having yieldable or elastic sides, between which the body of the device may be clamped in the manner shown in the drawings. This form of shoe is longer than the body of the device, so as to cover a greater area. Each longitudinal flange is bent outwardly and then inwardly to form a substantially U-shaped rim,'which snugly embraces the adjacent edge of the material 19, which is stretched across the exposed surface of the shoe, each end flange being merely bent back upon its outer face, as at 20, to snugly embrace the acent edge portion of the facing material, so as to detachably connect the latter to the shoe.

In using the device with a shoe applied to the body the latter is worked back and forth in the well-known manner by manipulation of the handle, so as to reciprocate the shoe i upon the surface under treatment, andby 1 reason of the polygonalcross-sectional shape of the body the latter is not liable to turn upon. its axis when not in operation.

it is of course ap' arent that the body may be turned i ndepcnt ently of the shoe, particularly in working upon a dry surface, and

therefore the body has been provided with the diflerentfacings 5, 6, and 7.

Having thus described the invention, what is'claimed .is

1. A device of the class described comprising a body, and a shoe having a work-face and provided with opposite springdlanges sprung upon the body and detachably connecting the shoe, thereto.

2. A device of the class described comprising a body, and a shoe haying opposite spring-flanges detachably sprung upon the shoe, andia facing applied to the shoe with the flanges bent around opposite edges of the facing to connect the same to the shoe.

3. A device of the class described comprising a body, and a detachable shoe having opposite spring-flanges detachably sprung upon the body, a working face for the shoe, and guard-flanges projecting laterally from the shoe.

4. A device of the class described comprising a body, and a shoehaving opposite spring;- fianges detachably sprung;- upon the body, each flange being rebent upon its outer side to form a U-shaped clamping member with the outer edge of the flange bent laterally outward to form a guard, and a facing applied to the shoe with opposite edges secured within the clamp portions of tie flanges.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own i have hereto aiiixed'my signature of two witnesses. WILLIAM J M. HAMES.

in the presence Witnesses J. M. FOWLER, E. U. FinLDs. 

